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On 14 and 15 September 2019, CERN will open its doors to the general public
CERN has tested a new satellite, CELESTA, which will use CERN radiation-monitoring technology in space
Physicists and engineers learn first-hand about career prospects outside academia
The CERN accelerator complex is being switched off step-by-step in order to prepare for Long Shutdown 2 (LS2)
The beam screen for the High-Luminosity LHC will be installed by 2024 in the aperture of the inner triplet superconducting magnets near ATLAS and CMS
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The seventh Thematic CERN School of Computing (tCSC 2019) will take place in Split, Croatia, from 12 to 18 May 2019
This year, four CERN technical apprentices were awarded their "certificat fédéral de capacité"
One of the three border posts on the CERN site is back in its usual place. These posts bear testimony to fragments of CERN’s history.
Entrepreneurship students present ideas that leverage CERN technologies
